Lynn's Comments: No notes necessary!
Monthly Archives: April 2018
Monday April 2, 2018
Lynn's Comments: Having done this to Elly’s hair, I was now bound to have her "curly" for a long time! If I was to do a realistic story, I had to have a realistic outcome.
Tuesday April 3, 2018
Wednesday April 4, 2018
Thursday April 5, 2018
Friday April 6, 2018
Saturday April 7, 2018
Lynn's Comments: The curly hair story brought thanks from folks who were telling me to change Elly’s hair, complaints from folks who thought it was ugly, and very personal letters from women and men who were waiting for a hair disaster to grow out. Hair, it seems, is very serious stuff.
Sunday April 8, 2018
Lynn's Comments: I bought a pair of good scissors one day because I couldn't find my sewing shears anywhere. I told Kate that these were not to be removed from my sewing box. Several days later, they were gone. The two of us did a massive clean up of the house and we found 9 pairs of scissors. Like socks, scissors sometimes disappear from the face of the earth…never to be found again.
Monday April 9, 2018
Lynn's Comments: I was good at this…both range and direction. When I was in school, the boys weren't the only ones getting detentions for causing trouble!
Tuesday April 10, 2018
Lynn's Comments: Drawings like the one in panel 3 made my day. If I could come up with an idea that required expressions like these, I was in heaven.
Wednesday April 11, 2018
Lynn's Comments: I couldn't wait to be 13 for this very reason. I could add the word "teen" to my age. I could also babysit and make some cash. This was the beginning of independence.
Thursday April 12, 2018
Friday April 13, 2018
Saturday April 14, 2018
Sunday April 15, 2018
Lynn's Comments: Micromanagement is never a good thing.
Monday April 16, 2018
Lynn's Comments: The first boy-girl party I ever went to was at my friend Carolyn’s house. We were all about 13. It was an easy mix until the lights went down and we tried slow dancing. We had been taught how to waltz in gym class, but in a real basement with real couples, it was awkward.
Tuesday April 17, 2018
Lynn's Comments: There were about a dozen of us at the party, all dressed up and giggling. What I remember most, besides being hot and sweaty and dancing cheek to cheek, was a burping contest. Pop was expensive. None of us had it at home very often and Carolyn’s mom had bought us a real variety.
Wednesday April 18, 2018
Lynn's Comments: Somebody (might have been me) suggested we shake up the bottles of pop, drink them and see who could burp the loudest. The guys thought this was a good idea, so they and I got the contest underway. Carolyn and the rest of the girls didn't want to get involved, but they didn't want to tell on us either–in case it was a cool scene.
Thursday April 19, 2018
Lynn's Comments: It wasn't a cool scene. The pop went down and came right back up again. It came out our mouths and out of our noses. I’d chosen cream soda and I was covered in it. My dress was soaked up the front, the guys were also wet and embarrassed, but we laughed anyway. The audience was silent, and I had learned something: It’s of utmost importance to practice a gag before you try to pull it off. When a gag goes wrong, the troops are called and the night ends quickly. I wasn't invited back.
Friday April 20, 2018
Saturday April 21, 2018
Sunday April 22, 2018
Lynn's Comments: This was as close as I ever got to having nudity in the strip. My editors had to think about this one before they permitted it to run. I don't think any of the papers refused to print it, but I did get a couple of warning notes from papers in the southern US.
Monday April 23, 2018
Lynn's Comments: It doesn't matter how young or old you are, "love-games" happen.
Tuesday April 24, 2018
Lynn's Comments: Behind the scenes, I knew that Gordon Mayes’ family life was very difficult. His dad drank and was abusive, his mom was too tolerant and too fearful to defend Gordon from blows and belittling. I rarely talked about this in the strip. Just alluding to it gave Gordon an extra element of reality. It made him someone for whom I felt compassion and concern. His character grew after this.
Wednesday April 25, 2018
Thursday April 26, 2018
Lynn's Comments: I was hoping that Elizabeth’s eyes looked like two olives. Sometimes a gag works, sometimes it doesn't!
Friday April 27, 2018
Saturday April 28, 2018
Sunday April 29, 2018
Lynn's Comments: I rarely used processed cheese in the kids’ lunches, but when I did, I thought this would be a funny prank to pull.
Monday April 30, 2018
